Honestly, the only winning strategy for me is to put user experience ahead of making profits but this is not a universal recipe for success. Everyone should follow their own style, Steve Jobs would never have founded Amazon and vice versa. The best strategy for an entrepreneur is to stay loyal to your values. The […]

Hold monthly one-on-ones with all of your direct reports. Without setting aside time to talk to people about what’s exciting them, what they’re concerned about, and what they think I should do differently, I’d never learn about most of the things that are happening at One Month. It also lets you hear exactly what people […]

Take everything step by step. Having received his MBA at Ponts-et –Chaussés and trained as a general engineer and patent expert, Jacques Lépine specialized early on in innovation. Over the course of his career, he has had several diverse experiences in the fields of design intellectual property. He has a great legacy and lineage that […]

If you focus on making customers happy, they talk about you. We still get most of our new customers from word-of-mouth referrals. Ash Rust is the CEO and co-founder of SendHub, a telecommunications company with an all-in-one phone system that provides SMS, voice, file, and conference call functionality in an easy-to-use mobile app. The platform […]

Put the customer first. Your customers are at the core of your business. Without them, you don’t have a business. As you’re building the product, think about your customers — better yet, ask them! Features and new products are fun and shiny, but if they don’t help the customer, why did you build them? Keith […]

One of our investors told me once, “Anything you need to do yourself suggests that you don’t have the right people.” So my focus is to empower my people and not optimize my personal output. Being available and approachable for my team is key. Daniel Kraft serves as the CEO of Sitrion, a software company […]